Word: petitioner
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The recent petition sponsored by a Faculty group uses platitudes about academic freedom to cover up the main issue of racism at Harvard and is thus a direct attack on the Black students who stopped the riot control course.
The petition states that academic freedom consists of "free inquiry and discussion," implying an abstract battleground where all ideas somehow fight it out. But is academic freedom really an abstract fight? Isn't it rather a procedure by which the Harvard Corporation extends its protection to certain people to "assure...
OCTOBER 30 -- X rallies around a ten foot black balloon in front of the Holyoke Center to protest the English Department. A multi-point petition demands the department be abolished, the study prohibited, and the building razed.
Sargent Kennedy, secretary to the Corporation, said he would present the petition to the Corporation at its meeting March 3. The Corporation will consider the Harvard-Radcliffe merger at the same meeting.
It's not clear that even a petition signed by half of Harvard and Radcliffe is going to make any difference," Judith T. Seligson '72, a member of the subcommittee, said yesterday. "The Corporation seems to make up its mind independently of student opinion." she added.